Americans are awash in information. Most of us walk around with devices that give us instant access to all the knowledge in human history. But before you could Google it, and long before we met Alexa, ...

Why a banned African knowledge project terrified global powers — and why reviving it could redefine Africa’s future today.

NORFOLK, Va. — Imagine this: you’re a teenager in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and you have a research project due soon. Long before Google or Wikipedia, there was only one thing to turn to…the ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all in on artificial intelligence, and may soon go public at a valuation of ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter who covers the politics and power influencing the tech industry. Before joining The Verge in 2018, ...

The world received word yesterday that the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica would stop producing hardbound, paper copies of their venerable reference. Actually, they stopped in 2010 but didn’t ...

Ahead of hosting COP31 in 2026, Türkiye's Zero Waste Foundation has released the "Zero Waste Encyclopedia" to the public in ...